PipemanRadio Interviews Of Virtue at Inkcarceration 2025

0:04 Hey, you love then too, Yes, that's true. W Wow, Crazy Young Incarceration America's Rock, Metal and Tattoo Festival. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio, and I'm here. With Damon from a virtue. I is a going brother. Oh it's fucking great because you're here at incarceration man. Oh dude, bright Sonny it's not actually as hot as it has been. Yeah, yeah, like it's so funny. I live in Florida. Yeah, and I don't get burnt. But when I was at Sonic Temple, I got fucking burnt. And I was at Rockville didn't get burnt. Don't get burnt at home. I'm like, how the fuck do I get burnt in the Ohio?

0:53 Because nobody likes Ohio. I know, even the weather. It's like, you know, what if you're gonna go outside at your own peril. Yeah, it's a good thing like you were early because we might have a code read later today. Oh man, it was. I'll tell you this. It was wonderful plant early today. So that way we can hang out, have some fun, obviously, have this conversation Rockville. I probably wanted to die. I was like this is right. If we played any later, which we played early on that too, it was we might not have made it that. I don't even understand how people play in Florida number one all And I just got back from doing hell Fest and that made Florida look cool, and I was like, how these bands Like I was doing a press conference, I couldn't even see because the sweat was burning my eyes.

1:43 It was so freaking hot, Like it's like one hundred and four degrees, Like, how do you play in that? Oh? And Europe is a different beast too, because there's no air conditioning, so it's you're out there and there's no you're dead. Ye're one hundred percent. They love it. They're just like and then like the press fan is black. Yeah, you know, like, oh my godness, even what I was doing interviews outside. Yeah, it's they're different out there, so no doubt. So have you visited inside the prison yet? We did the first time. I have not done it today. We might have some time to do it and actually do like one of the tours, because it's always it's a fun sight to see. It's a nice piece of history.

2:27 And again it's not like we get down into this area very often. We're always going by. It's whether it's Columbus or Cleveland or you know, anybody else. That's like when you can actually come here and see a piece of history like that and see what it's doing and helping with the whole festival and everything else. It's wild, man, It's crazy. It's freaking iconic. Like, you know, I do festivals all over and like, my youngest daughter shall go, So you're excited to go to this festival. I'm like, well, I really love it. I don't know if excited it's the right word when you do it every weekend. But then the first time I do it in I called her up. I'm like, now I'm excited. I'm standing in the prison yard of Shawshank Yeah right. You know, it's like just so wild that it's a kind of eerie having the stage and then in the background it's the prison. And even like last night falling in reverse, and I felt so good for Ronnie because it's like he did time in prison and now he's performing as a headliner in front of a prison.

3:27 Insane trip. Yes, But then I don't know if you know, but there's a live prison right next door. And there could have been during your set inmates out in the yard listening to your set like you're Johnny Casts. That's wild, right, You're finding all those little fun facts and everything else. It's like, it's what makes these kind of experiences that much more cool. Yeah, it's say when you tell people and your friends of all, Hey, this is why I had a chance to do. Now you gotta come see it for yourself. Totally. So now, how are you top incarceration? What's going on for the rest of the year. Oh man, we're on tour right now. It's the temporary High tour with our friends Archers, their first headliner, our friends and Rivals, our friends in Dead Eyes.

4:09 We're actually taking a break from them. So they're up in Wisconsin. They're playing rock Fest. Oh yeah, yeah, and we decided to come over here. This is one we'll play rock Fest too. Yeah, I've heard great things about rock Fest. But we go to Indianapolis tomorrow. We have about eight more shows on that tour. Come back. We're going to the studio for a little bit. We're working on a record right now, nice and actually pretty deep into it. We got about ten eleven songs and we're starting to see the finish line with that. So we're gonna get some new music out there. We've been playing a brand new song on this tour actually since we went to Europe earlier this year too, to start getting a little taste out there. Because one of the fun questions is people say, hey, how you put your record out about a year and a half ago, and it's like, yes, we know that, we understand that, trust me. So it was like, hey, let's pick something that's fun, that's bouncy.

4:58 We played it today, got the first Wall Death going nice. They were a little sleepy. We got him to wake up, just to touch a little bit. Well, I know, Slord to prevail. Basically, they said before the festival that they're planning on them doing the record biggest Wall of Death ever. Here adding okay, I was gonna say because the one that they have online, that one is absolutely ridiculous to wash. I don't And the way that the stages are set up today with the barricades, I don't know if they're gonna be able to They might get right, they might get too. They should probably like get security to just remove those barriers. Yeah, open the whole place up. How well would that be like the whole prison yard is one big wall of death.

5:45 But see, then here's the fun part that no one wants to ever talk about. The insurance policy on that is probably a nightmare. So Danny Wimmer, I give you mad props for everything that you do, and he's probably like, nah, we're just gonna you can have a medium sized wall of death, just not the largest one in recorded human history I. Know, right, And Wimmer does know how to put on these festivals. Like I've been doing these festivals for like fifteen years, and every ours I've ever asked, how does Danny Wimmer treat you? I've never gotten negative response ever. In a world that we live in that everybody complains about fucking everything, and so that says a fucking lot.

6:30 Yeah, getting people to agree on anything is hard, right, and especially when it comes to music, When it comes to something that you know, it can have so many different answers and it really is no wrong answer at all. Exactly how do you like playing the Danny Wimmer festivals? Oh there? Oh dude, these have been some of the best. The smoothest transition like coming in the crew is helpful, The meals are great again being able to talk with so many different people. This is like a literal summer camp. I've seen people today that I haven't seen in eight years, ten years, people that I saw two months ago. When you're going up, there's people from our local scene that we grew up with that it's like, oh now we're both on the same stages, ripping the same things.

7:14 And it's like, it's that's consolantely fucking sick man. And how about back here it's lounge, you got the open bar, the drip bar, like it's I look at artists back here and it's even different than Rockville because they had it there, but it wasn't the same here. Like the artists just hang out and just are having the best time. Oh yeah, like you said, summer camp. They get to hang out with their friends that maybe they don't see a lot because you're both on the road and it's just a chill vibe dude. Absolutely, And it's like, man, there's only so many places that you can go, and it's like you could literally bump into an idol or somebody, like I think when we played inc the last time, it's like ran into a des from coal Chamber and it was like that's a wild thing its own, right, like meeting Sonny from pod We're doing any of you right now, and the singer of Slaughterer of super Vail is to your left, and then Jose Mangan was somewhere over here earlier today and it's like.

8:10 And I bumped them for your airview, They're after you. It's this crazy as as why like that, I'm stoked to see I'm stoked to watch them play. Man, It's gonna be a lot of fun. Oh yeah, well last night Alex Terrible went on with Falling in Reverse. Oh no, yeah, it was pretty brutal. But the thing is, man, that band, they are there troopers like Ronnie does his thing. He's a polarizing figure. Yeah, that's for sure. But it's also awesome because like I like d O, their bass player plays in Bad Wolves. Like I've toured with him. He's a fucking awesome dude. Marka Kubo and his band Veila Maya again ogs like Luke Hollin from he used to play in the World Alive. It's like you're seeing all these people kind of come together and do these things, and it's like it's it's amazing what these festivals with this scene and everything else can do, and then when again when you can see it all together, it's like a fever dream.

9:04 Man. It's amazing to me as somebody that's been going to metal show since nineteen eighty and it we didn't have crowds like this. Then if we had twenty five people go to a Metallica show, that was a lot. That's so crazy, man, right, Yeah. It's like and in my high school there were like three of us that were metal ads, three of us that were punks, and then we didn't like each other back then. We still had some of that in my like growing up as well, where it's like a lot of people was like you only listened to like one thing, and it was like I was the weird one because I'm like, no, I like all of the dupe Like you had the mixed CDs and it's like I had Metallica to Three Doors Down to Authority Zero, to the Damned to Rights, ever was Doctor Trey all on the same disc.

9:49 I love it And that's the way it should be. Like you can have what your favorites are, but you don't have to be Oh, I can only listen to this, which is what I grew up with, Like God forbid you admit to anybody you listen to something different, and it was just stupid, Like it's just music. It's therapy, and we're one big, happy family. And that's the way it is now. And I'm happy it's that way now. And my mom, she probably put it one of the best ways. It's you don't eat one single food every single day. You're not just eating chicken every single day. It's like sometimes you might want a steak, sometimes you want some tofuo, you want a fruit, some vegetables, and everything could be nourishing to the body. You want some candy, whatever it is. But music is the same way, man.

10:36 It's something for every single mood, every single thing. And if you're tapped into that, it's wonderful. If you're not, that's fine too. You find the thing that makes you feel something totally. I love it. I love that attitude. That's the way it should be for everybody. And that's why I say, if we want cure the world's problems right now, we should just have one big music festival that everybody in the world it's required to attend. Maybe we could get along. Maybe the only problem is again you have to try to get everybody there and that's the problem. Well you're here at ink and it's badass and I can't wait to see a lot more of you. And thanks for being on the Avengers and pipe man. Oh yeah, no, you're gonna We're gonna see a lot more of us. Man again, shout out Danny Wimmer and the team for again having it. This is our second incarceration we did Welcome to Rockville. We've done louder than life and just to be a part of the ecosystem.

11:29 Like you said, it's a dream come true for us. But we want to keep that dream going. So there you go, and hey, we'll keep doing these interviews. So each time that we pop up at a Wimmer festival or any festival for that matter, we can just kind of keep this going. There you go. Good tradition, which I can tell Danny Wimmer right now he has to put you guys on Aftershock. Hey, Danny Wimmer, I appreciate you so much. After Shock would be wonderful. Love it. Thanks you again and look forward to more. Hey, appreciate you brother. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Patement on w for Cui Radio h